Artist in Residence 2024, Javiera Tejerina-Risso

Residency period
August 15 – September 1, 2024

in cooperation with Kunstverein Baden

Javiera Tejerina-Risso, a French-Chilean artist based in Marseille, France, has a practice-based PhD from Aix-Marseille University. She participated in Bruno Latour’s Arts+Politics SPEAP Sciences Po Paris, and has held residencies at the Ateliers de la ville de Marseille, Espace 36 (St. Omer), the IRPHE lab and the IMERA  Foundation (Marseille), the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (California), La Cupula Mérida (Mexico) and  the Belkin Gallery and the  Quantum Matter Institute in Vancouver, (Canada). She is invited to deliver workshops at art academies including: Ecole d’art supérieure d’Aix-en-Provence, Ecole supérieure d’Art et de design de Toulon, Instituto de Arte PUCV à Viña del Mar Chile, and UNAY Mérida Mexico.

In France, her work has been shown at Les Tanneries Art Center, Châteauvert Art Center, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Variation Media Art Fair, Objectif Vidéo Nice (OVNI), the 68th edition of Jeune Création, Dos Mares in Marseille and at international festivals such as VidéoFormes, Time is Love Screenings, and Proyector 15. She has been invited to show her work by faculty and artist Victoria Vesna to the Art-Sci Center at UCLA (USA) and by Bienal Tlatelolca to CDMX (Mexico), as well as Kunstverein Baden.

Tejerina-Risso’s work unfolds in the exhibition space primarily in the form of installations and videos and engages deeply with the scientific imagination, notably relying on the vocabulary and research in physics.